A number of links to share as we warm-up for Chris Gaffney’s Temples of the Earthbound Gods on September 22nd:

• BBC football correspondent Tim Vickery’s take on Brazil 2014 stadium preparations.
• Alex Usher has passed along the citation for a related edited volume published by Routledge: Stadium Worlds: Football, Space and the Built Environment
• Alon Raab has asked me to pass along the following call for contributors for an upcoming edited volume on soccer in the Middle East: